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Preparing for your Parole Oral Hearing

Information for prisoners about Oral Hearings

Easy Read version

June 2015

Contents page Help with this leaflet........................................................................

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Help with your parole oral hearing........................................................................

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Preparing for your oral hearing........................................................................

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What will happen in the oral hearing........................................................................

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What will happen after the oral hearing........................................................................

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What to do if you need to complain ........................................................................

........................... 15 Glossary ........................................................................ .................................................................... 16 This guide follows on from the booklet called "A guide to help with your Parole Review". It is for any prisoner whose case will be heard at an oral hearing. 1 2 Help with this leaflet Some of the words used in the leaflet are in bold type. We have explained what these words mean at the end of this leaflet in the 'Glossary' section. This leaflet will help you prepare for your parole oral hearing.

It explains what will happen.

If you need help with the things in this leaflet you should ask somebody in the prison to help you.

You can ask your offender

supervisor, offender manager, a prison officer, the prison chaplain or a prison visitor.

Help with your parole oral hearing

You can ask a legal representative

for help with your parole oral hearing. You might have a legal representative who helped you with written representations.

If you do not have a legal

representative the prison will have a list of legal representatives who you can contact.

You can ask a member of staff in the

prison to show you the contact list. If you cannot afford to pay for a legal representative you can apply for legal aid.

In most cases you should be able to

get legal aid for your parole oral hearing.

This means you will get a legal

representative for free who will be able to help you.

Some people will not be able

to get legal aid because of their type of parole review.

You should check with a

legal representative or the

Prisoners' Advice Service if

you can get legal aid. If you cannot get a legal representative you can ask a friend or someone else you

know to help you with your parole oral hearing. 3

The person who is

helping you with your parole oral hearing is called your representative.

There are some

people who cannot be your representative.

You cannot be

represented by someone if they are being kept under the

Mental Health Act or

if they might be kept under the Act soon. You cannot be represented by someone if they are in prison or if they have left prison but are still on licence.

You cannot be represented

by someone if they have an 'unspent' offence.

This is when someone

must admit to having a criminal conviction if they are asked. It means not enough time has passed for a person to be able to keep their criminal convictions a secret. 4 5

You can contact the Prisoners'

Advice Service for free help and

advice.

Telephone: 0845 430 8923

(Only on Monday, Wednesday and Friday)

Write:

Prisoners' Advice Service

PO Box 46199

London

EC1M 4XA

Email:

advice@prisonersadvice.org.uk

You can contact the Parole Board

and ask them if you have a question about your parole oral hearing.

Telephone: 020 3334 4402

Write:

Parole Board for England

and Wales

52 Queen Anne's Gate

London

SW1H 9AJ

Email:

info@paroleboard.gsi.gov.uk

Preparing for your oral hearing

If the Parole Board have

decided that you need an oral hearing they will give instructions about the oral hearing. These are called Directions.

The panel will come to your prison to talk to

you in a private room.

The prison will have a

room that is used for parole oral hearings. Sometimes the panel will decide that they will not come to the prison but will talk to you through a TV screen on a videolink. They will not be in the room if they do this.

You should read the Directions carefully and

discuss them with your representative if you have one. If you think something in the Directions should be changed you or your representative should explain this on the MCA

Response Form.

This form will be sent to

you with the directions. 6

You may want to ask on

the MCA Response Form for other people to attend the oral hearing who can give the Parole Board more information about you.

These people will be

known as witnesses. You should explain why you want these people to come to your hearing. A member or members of your family can also attend your hearing. They will be known as observers.

This means they cannot

speak but they can listen to what is being said.

You will need to ask on the

MCA Response Form if

they can come to your hearing.

You can ask on the MCA

Response Form if you think

the Parole Board need to see written reports or information that they have not asked for in the Directions for your hearing.

You can ask on the MCA

Response Form if you need

special arrangements to be made because you have medical problems or find things hard to explain or understand.

The Parole Board must

always do what they can to make sure everything is fair and equal. 7

Your MCA Response Form

should be sent to the

Parole Board.

The prison can do this for

you if you do not have a representative. The Parole Board may make more Directions for your case after they have read any MCA Response

Forms.

They will tell you the date

when your hearing should happen.

You should read through

the dossier of written information about you.

This will help you to prepare

for your oral hearing.

You may want to write down

some notes to help you remember.

You should think about the

following points:

1. What are the main things

you want to tell the

Parole Board?

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2. What might the Parole

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